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got a call this afternoon from a shop owner who rents out the flat above her shop, entrance via a long coridor from a back street,
anyway could i come asap as the tenents need the lights to work.
as I was just finishing up the current job and this shop was on the way home I got there in 20 min's.
asked where the light switch was and was shown a switch half way down the corridor, this did not work and there was no power to it. There was a broken time delay switch by the back door but was told that had always been like that.
I found 4 cu's dotted around the place all with 5A fuses to checked them all out and could not find a fault.
after a bit more investigation i found another time delay switch hidden behind some rolls of rockwool, gave that a push and the lights came on.
spoke to the girl and she said
"thats odd we have never had to push that in the 2 years i have worked here, the lights have just always been on (24/7)"
it seems after 2 years the switch had unstuck its self and turned the lights off. At least they were cfl's.
anyway could i come asap as the tenents need the lights to work.
as I was just finishing up the current job and this shop was on the way home I got there in 20 min's.
asked where the light switch was and was shown a switch half way down the corridor, this did not work and there was no power to it. There was a broken time delay switch by the back door but was told that had always been like that.
I found 4 cu's dotted around the place all with 5A fuses to checked them all out and could not find a fault.
after a bit more investigation i found another time delay switch hidden behind some rolls of rockwool, gave that a push and the lights came on.
spoke to the girl and she said
"thats odd we have never had to push that in the 2 years i have worked here, the lights have just always been on (24/7)"
it seems after 2 years the switch had unstuck its self and turned the lights off. At least they were cfl's.
